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Philip Ilic Thomas
Personal blog · philipithomas.com · on HN as philip1209programming
Philip Ilic Thomas's personal blog at philipithomas.com covers programming. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “When are low-code prototypes useful?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this personal site as a resume built as an interactive, version-controlled website. Comments focus on its design, which one compares to the Svbtle network, and on details of the author's CV.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Philip Ilic Thomas is an engineer living in New York City, working at the intersection of math, software, and business.
Most-linked posts?
- When are low-code prototypes useful?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-14
- Disassembling Square2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-10
What Hacker News says?
My digital resume was a popular github project: https://github.com/philipithomas/cv-philipithomas (It's deprecated - link to live is no longer accurate) I'm in the process of trying to reinvent it. Here's the current iteration: https://www.philipithomas.com/resume/ It's an ongoing project, but I think that either using a static site generator or javascript templates. I'm also planning on incorporating navigation lik…
Comment linking /resume/
on “Interactive Resume”Submitted Exploring the Abandoned Macy's Midwest Headquarters as a story · 144 points
HN discussionP.S. - my personal site (on Postcard) is https://www.philipithomas.com
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on “The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites”Submitted WSJ Ignores 5 other Square co-founders as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI use Cloudflare's 404 pages feature, which incorporates possible intended destinations. I haven't had a chance to make a custom 404 page (e.g. with Google's 404 widget), so this gets the job done. e.g. http://www.philipithomas.com/does_not_exist
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on “Lemmings 404 page”Submitted STL Hackathon Canceled After Social Backlash as a story · 76 points
HN discussionThanks! Postcard already supports embedded posts, a newsletter, and even full-text RSS. Check it out in action on my personal site: https://www.philipithomas.com
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on “Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website”Submitted The commando scientist billionaire who died fighting terrorists as a story · 61 points
HN discussionYes, like the other comment mentions - there's a built-in newsletter that also acts like a light blog. Check out how I use it on my personal site: https://www.philipithomas.com/ I also custom-generate OpenGraph images for each page and post, which makes them look great when shared on social networks. My philosophy is that you should be able to write once, then share everywhere - which I chat more about in the launch…
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on “Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website”Submitted Take a Vacation to Read as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSure! Tech stack is Rails with Hotwire on the frontend. I'm hosting on Render.com, and using their custom domains support to issue certificates. It looks like I had an MVP done in May [1], then spend the Summer doing lots of testing and refinement. Speed was a big focus - I wanted sites to be ultra-quick. I do this with a mix of caching in Memcached, image optimization source sets, CDN, and more. Plus, I'm dynamical…
Comment linking /posts/sharing-a-project-i-built-postcard
on “Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website”Submitted Facts about the military empire of switzerland as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSomething like this happened in St. Louis. The community protested, and they ended up canceling the hackathon. Details here: https://www.philipithomas.com/stl-hackathon-canceled-after-s...
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on “Hack4Detroit's indemnification clause”Submitted Video – Optimization in Julia as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYour website - http://philipithomas.com - has exactly the same design as the - https://svbtle.com - network. Are you part of that network (if so... how did you do it?) or are you just really copying on a grand scale?
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on “Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github”Submitted Switching from Wordpress to Jekyll as a story · 5 points
HN discussionquick note for you: in your hn profile you say "graduating May 2013". According to the about on your site http://www.philipithomas.com/about/ you graduated in May, but on your cv site http://cv.philipithomas.com/ you say "I graduate this month" and in education you say "expected 5/13" If you finally graduated, it's time to update all the info :-)
Comment linking /about/
on “Form letter response for engineering recruiting emails”Submitted Exploitation by STL Hackathon and Teralogix as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://www.philipithomas.com - personal website https://contraption.co - personal blog
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Matchist Meddling with Client Deals as a story · 4 points
HN discussionStory of me building it here: http://philipithomas.com/2012/06/introducing-food-truck-stl/ Basically, I was hungry and wanted an easier way to find my food trucks. Consider it a 'weekday project.' I know that loading takes a little time, but running this many twitter queries server-side was a pain in the butt and the caching so it wouldn't crash was proving to be annoying, so I currently have it set to render client…
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on “Show HN: Food Truck STL - Mobile Food Dashboard for St. Loui”Submitted Effortless 2 Second WordPress Page Load Times While Atop Hacker News as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Freelance/Contract - Remote from USA I'm a serial founder who's built and sold multiple companies (like https://moonlightwork.com ), and I've held leadership roles in engineering + product at major companies like Webflow and Trusted Health. But, my passion is building early-stage startups - and I use my background in software and product to help help companies launch a product or convert a low-code pr…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2022)”Submitted Red Flag in Tesla Motors 10-K as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Freelance/Contract - Remote from US I'm a former technical founder who likes to jump into deep, ambiguous problems. As a solo person I can scope, design, and build end-to-end products. In the last few months, I've helped: 1. An idea-stage startup build an prototype with OpenAI that went on to close a large seed round + build out their team 2. Build a reinforcement learning platform for a government co…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2023)”Submitted Show HN: Crowd Voting Application as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.philipithomas.com Small feature that makes me write more: I added the ability for past posts to be "unlisted", so they don't show up on the "past posts" list. That way, I can mix evergreen and ephemeral posts on the same site.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Anatomy of a Virtual Speech with Google+ Hangouts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI built Chroma's integration for Stripe Projects. As a developer tool, integrating Stripe Projects felt a lot like adding "Sign in with Google" - Stripe acts as a trusted identity and billing provider, but for agents instead of humans. The core insight is that agent commerce is a trust problem: an agent can't (shouldn't?) enter a credit card or verify an email, so you need a trusted third party to KYC both sides. St…
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on “Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI”Submitted Open-Sourcing Booklet as a story · 2 points
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